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As reported before, on June 22, 2016, the RA Investigative Committee initiated criminal proceedings on transferring Armine Arakelyan, founder of the Institute for Democracy and Human Rights (IDHR) NGO, by force to a psychiatric hospital from the basin of the fountains on Republic Square in Yerevan city on May 17, 2016 and subjecting her to suffering there. The criminal proceedings were initiated under Article 118 of the RA Criminal Code based on A. Arakelyan’s interview to 1in.am news website on her beating at the psychiatric institution.

The competent agencies took no measures on another allegation made by Armine Arakelyan during her interview according to which the law enforcement officers used violence while taking her out of the basin and handcuffed her by twisting her hands which was also reiterated during the questioning under the criminal proceedings.

On October 10, 2016, Armine Arakelyan’s representative Arayik Zalyan, lawyer at HCA Vanadzor, filed a motion on the above to the RA Investigative Committee requiring that it initiated criminal proceedings based on Armine Arakelyan’s allegation on suffering violence by law enforcement officers and sent it to the RA Special Investigation Service by subordination.

Upon consideration of the motion above, G. Matevosyan, Investigator at Investigation Division of Erebuni and Nubarashen administrative districts, Investigation Department of Yerevan city, by his decision of October 14, 2016 postponed its solution on the pretext that under the initiated criminal proceedings, “investigative work to collect evidence was carried out and therefore this motion may be solved only after establishing all the circumstances mentioned in the motion and taking a number of other necessary investigative actions.”